Software Engineer, Simulation Infrastructure & Tooling

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What You'll Do

This role owns the simulation infrastructure, ensuring that trace‑driven power/thermal analysis is reproducible, automated, and scalable across projects, and helps other team members build their assets efficiently.

Location: Daily onsite presence at our San Jose, CA office in alignment with our Flexible Work policy

Reports to: SVP, R&D (Power & Thermal Lab)

• Set up and maintain compute environments and simulation servers.
• Build automation pipelines for simulation runs, regression testing, and result tracking.
• Manage data pipelines for traces, power features, and thermal outputs.
• Support experiment management, versioning, and reproducibility.
• Collaborate with modeling engineers to streamline workflows.
• Interface with RTL and thermal simulators.

What You Bring

• Bachelors degree 5+ years of experience or Masters degree 3+ years of experience.
• Strong systems‑level software‑engineering skills.
• Solid experience in programming‑environment and server setup and management.
• Experience with Linux environments, build systems, and automation.
• Familiarity with scripting (Python, Bash) workflows.
• Exposure to RTL and thermal simulators.

### Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting research or modeling teams.
• Experience with large‑scale simulation or EDA/CFD‑adjacent tooling environments.

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